Saturday we received our "SUN OVEN" and cleaned it and prepared it for cooking. I am so excited about using this oven and not having the hot dutch ovens outside. We do NOT cook inside during the summer because it raises our home temperature so it is a lot of barbecue or dutch oven cooking. This new "Sun Oven" looks so much easier. 
Sunday, I taught a Young Women lesson on Forgiveness and the girls were wonderful about sharing examples and reinforcing the importance of forgiving each other, family, etc. I cooked beef enchiladas in the
round pans and stacked them. I have cooked something in the oven almost every day to see how it works. The instruction book said you just have to try it to see how it works. I LOVE IT!
No hot briquet's and heavy dutch ovens. Just an easy pan in and out of the oven. I do have to move the oven with the sun each 1/2 hour or hour.
Monday- Cleaned house and for Family Home Evening went with Jared and his family to Kaweah Oaks Preserve on a walk. It was fun to see the rabbits, squirrels and chipmunks. The kids had lots of fun getting out in a field and away from the house. We came home and had dessert.
Tuesday, Clifford had surgery on his left hand because he had another trigger finger that would not open and close correctly. It is an out patient operation and he feels much better. Tuesday the missionaries were coming for dinner so I made an apple crisp in the sun oven. Wonderful!
Wednesday - We worked around the house and I got to sew on my new machine while the children were gone to the beach. I am trying to do a few Christmas presents and see what this Viking can do. I also go out all the yarn and looms for the Hats of Hope project at school and got them organized and taken over to the school library.Clifford mowed the lawn and I made zucchini bread in the Sun Oven. A friend found two zucchini that were huge, I don't know how you overlook them. The oven holds two loaf pans side by side and the bread was moist and delicious. I took one loaf with me to YM/YW swimming party and it was gone fast. "I love Zucchini Bread" was a common comment." I liked I did not heat up my house.
Friday - Jared and Danell went to the early morning session at the Fresno Temple and Clifford and I babysit. The kids and I went to the park while it was cool and played for an hour. Then we came home and cleaned all the pine needles out from under the trees in the front yard. It sure looks better. I figure I only have to do this once a year.
Today we cooked chocolate chip cookies in the oven. They are very moist. It is nice because you can cook about 10 cookies on each rack so 30 at a time in 20 minutes. The top ones are a little browner then then bottom but all are moist and done. 
Clifford sent a couple of hours Friday playing with the children with magnets. They tried all kinds of neat tricks. Remember how fascinating they were when we were little. Being a grandparent is lots more fun than raising our own children. We can go to the bedroom and relax if they are to wild.
Saturday- is our ward social and I am in charge of the home made root beer and dessert (rootbeer floats)
We are doing a pioneer activity with Grandma Donna Howell celebrating her 97th birthday. The Primary is in charge of the pioneer games. I don't think I will cook today since we are having a barbeque at the Rogers house.
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